Kai Wright, Author at City Limits

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Kai Wright

18 articles published

15

A Clean Start

He’s zapped tuberculosis and stamped out smoking. Now Tom Frieden wants to take on AIDS. But can New York’s haughty health commissioner convince Queens its neighborhoods need clean needles?

ByKai Wright 42 minRead time

15

The Medicaid Showdown: A User's Guide

New York’s health care costs are crushing state and local budgets, and Albany’s leaders are moving fast to stop the bleeding. Here’s a user’s guide to the proposals on the…

ByKai Wright 4 minRead time

15

Hip Hop Foray

Tourists Cruise Bronx Hip Hop

ByKai Wright 3 minRead time

15

City Lit: Spreading Infection

Notorious HIV: The Media Spectacle of Nushawn Williams By Thomas Shevory University of Minnesota Press, 280 pages, $18.95

ByKai Wright 7 minRead time

15

Body Count

Seeking a number on the homeless who’ve passed

ByKai Wright 3 minRead time

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BACKLASHING OUT

As the debate around gay rights explodes, so do the city’s hate crime stats.

ByKai Wright 4 minRead time

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BODY COUNT: COUNCIL BILL SEEKS HOMELESS DEATH DATA

New legislation would help the city understand where, when, and how homeless people die–if the Bloomberg administration lets it happen.

ByKai Wright 4 minRead time

15

Selling Hip Hop

And Keeping It Wrapped

ByKai Wright 3 minRead time

15

City Lit: Inside and Out

Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett By Jennifer Gonnerman Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 342 pages, $24 Reviewed by Kai Wright.

ByKai Wright 8 minRead time

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NONPROFITS GAGGED BY FEC RULING

The Federal Elections Commission sets tough new limits on political speech.

ByKai Wright 6 minRead time

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